UK Policing News

Luck escape for all involved. The chopper involved is not G-PSNI, but a leased chopper. Four people have been injured after a police helicopter crashed in the Mourne mountains. The accident happened close to the scene of last weekend's fatal helicopter crash. The helicopter was in the area on Thursday as part of a police clearance operation in connection with Saturday's crash. It had just taken off when it overturned. Emergency services are at the scene in Hilltown, County Down. John McPolin from the NI Ambulance service said that none of those on board suffered life threatening injuries. He confirmed there were two of those on board were "walking wounded" and tw…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11617475 ...alternatively you can just cut out the middle man and give the guns to the guards: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/10/13/20101013phoenix-armored-car-robbery-walgreens-abrk.html

Thousands of criminal cases could be open to appeal after a Supreme Court ruling that Scots police can no longer question suspects without their lawyer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11622138 Another case of watch the herring, we are them Stop someone by the side of the road, name? address? You have to wait for my lawyer.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11616870 British Transport Police is calling for tougher powers to tackle the growing problem of metal theft. There have been more than 5,000 such thefts from the railways and the gas and electricity networks this year. Officers have told BBC News the rising price for refined copper means they expect the problem to get worse. They want the power to shut suspected rogue scrap metal dealers on the spot in the same way they can close pubs, with the decision reviewed by a court. The last two years have seen the price of refined copper more than double. At the end of 2008 it was selling it at a low of less than £2,000 a tonne, but by earl…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11628372 A stringent project designed to curb alcohol-related crime in the US state of South Dakota is to be used as a model for a project in the UK. The "24/7 Sobriety Program" forces problem drinkers to take - and pay for - twice-daily breath tests to prove they are sober. The tests can be used as a sentence after a conviction, or a condition of bail, after an alcohol-related crime. They can also be imposed upon parents as a condition of having children returned to a household in families with a history of alcohol abuse. Failure of a test usually means an instant short spell in jail, and it is hoped that such a dramatic se…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11622218 UK security chiefs have ordered an acceleration in police training to prepare for any future "Mumbai-style" gun attack in a public place. A series of counter-terrorism exercises are being held with police marksmen training alongside units of the SAS. Police armed response units are also being given more powerful weapons. Recent intelligence had revealed the early stages of an al-Qaeda plot to carry out co-ordinated attacks in the UK, France and Germany. They were planning to copy the 2008 attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai, where 10 gunmen went on a three-day rampage, killing 166 people and injuring…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11622218 UK security chiefs have ordered an acceleration in police training to prepare for any future "Mumbai-style" gun attack in a public place. Before the guns come the Police, and with 25% less Police we will have a problem. If anything like this were to happen god forbid, will they`re be enough IPCC to investigate afterwards?

Both a credit to the Police uniform, one is sadly missed by all. Inquest: PC Bill Barker Died Accidentally18-Oct-10 Cumbria Officer drowned as bridge washed away in unprecedented flooding... The jury hearing the inquest into the death of PC Bill Barker today returned a verdict of accidental death. http://www.policeora...lly-_27312.html .......................................................................................................................................................... If only i could be as worthy of this name. 7/7 victims praise off-duty police officer Elizabeth Kenworthy Lady Justice Hallett described Kenworthy an exceptional person for her …

Police caught by cameras in blitz on bus lanes 7:40am Monday 25th October 2010 Dozens of police officers have been issued with £30 fines after spy cameras caught them transgressing road restrictions in Bradford city centre. Bradford Council switched on new CCTV cameras on September 20 to catch motorists illegally entering Market Street and Bridge Street, where only buses, Hackney carriages and bicycles are allowed. Now it has emerged that police are among the many thousands of motorists to have been issued with fines. The situation has been described as “idiotic†by the West Yorkshire Police Federation, which accused the Council of turning Market Street and Brid…

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-11578918 A man has been Tasered after he attacked Wiltshire Police officers with an iron bar. The incident happened on Sidmouth Street, in Devizes, at about 1045 BST after the man is thought to have smashed the window of an empty shop. A force spokesman said one officer was hit in the face by the 27-year-old and suffered facial injuries and concussion. An officer discharged the Taser and the man was arrested. The police spokesman said a second officer suffered an arm injury. Both were taken to hospital. The arrested man was taken to Melksham Police Station.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/democracylive/hi/house_of_commons/newsid_8718000/8718834.stm From 16:20 to 17:40, Theresa May answers questions about the merging of forces and the sharing of services in the wake of the tragic events in Cumbria.

A quick thinking resident was honoured by police this week in a ceremony usually reserved for officers and staff. Patrick Legros foiled a burglary in Cambridge Gardens, North Kensington late last year, when he confronted two men trying to climb through the window of a ground floor flat. They ran off, but he gave chase, got his wife to call the police, then helped officers locate the men, who could then be arrested by police. Superintendent Jane Johnson handed Mr Legros a commendation at the ceremony at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on Friday (15) and said: "Commendations for members of the public who assist police and the community in their actions are always p…

http://www.policeora...rime_27471.html good bit of police work by the crime fighting PCSO.. .

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http://www.theargus....r_crash/?ref=mr it is not clear how long the officer was on duty but to fall a sleep at the wheel of a patrol car good job no was was killed. but i cant comment till the case is over and more is known why ??